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On-demand thermal power amplification enabled by active heat -switching
Qian Ye, Aleida Machorro-Ortiz, William Schmid +3
Thermal management underpins essentially every energy technology, from solar harvesters and waste-heat recovery to industrial process heating and electronic cooling. Yet, thermal s…
Graduate Training in Quantum Information Science and Engineering: Lessons, Challenges, and a Roadmap from the NSF Research Traineeship Programs
Yohannes Abate, Victor Acosta, Alessandro Alabastri +31
Since 2019, eighteen NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) awards in quantum information science and engineering (QISE) and adjacent fields have been funded, constituting the largest NSF-…
Layered Bimetal Nanoporous Platforms for SERS Sensing
Yanqiu Zou, Anastasiia Sapunova, Tommaso Giovannini +15
Nanoporous metals are extensively investigated as platforms for applications in plasmonics. They present high surface areas and strong local electric fields that can be tuned at di…
Static magnetic control of light emission in plasmonic nanojunctions
Shusen Liao, Jaime Abad-Arredondo, Ken W. Ssennyimba +5
Localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) in metal nanoparticles have been studied extensively through scattering and absorption. Static magnetic field-induced changes in plasmo…
Realization of a Chiral Photonic-Crystal Cavity with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry
Kiran M. Kulkarni, Hongjing Xu, Fuyang Tay +7
Light-matter interactions in chiral cavities offer a compelling route to manipulate material properties by breaking fundamental symmetries such as time-reversal symmetry. However,…
Electron-Phonon Temperature Inversion in Nanostructures under Pulsed Photoexcitation
Qian Ye, Stephen K. Sanders, Andrea Schirato +1
Photoexcitation of metallic nanostructures with short optical pulses can drive non-thermal electronic states, which, upon decay, lead to elevated electronic temperatures ($T_e \gtr…
Terahertz chiral photonic-crystal cavities for Dirac gap engineering in graphene
Fuyang Tay, Stephen Sanders, Andrey Baydin +6
Strong coupling between matter and vacuum electromagnetic fields in a cavity can induce novel quantum phases in thermal equilibrium via symmetry breaking. Particularly intriguing i…
Dry synthesis of bi-layer nanoporous metal films as plasmonic metamaterial
Vincenzo Caligiuri, Hyunah Kwon, Andrea Griesi +13
Nanoporous metals are a class of nanostructured materials finding extensive applications in multiple fields thanks to their unique properties attributed to their high surface area…
Nanoporous Metals: From Plasmonic Properties to Applications in Enhanced Spectroscopy and Photocatalysis
Alemayehu Nana Koya, Xiangchao Zhu, Nareg Ohannesian +6
The field of plasmonics is capable of enabling interesting applications in the different wavelength ranges, spanning from the ultraviolet up to the infrared. The choice of plasmoni…
Quantifying efficiency of remote excitation for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy in molecular junctions
Shusen Liao, Yunxuan Zhu, Qian Ye +4
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is enabled by local surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) in metallic nanogaps. When SERS is excited by direct illumination of the nanogap,…
Multimode Ultrastrong Coupling in Three-Dimensional Photonic-Crystal Cavities
Fuyang Tay, Ali Mojibpour, Stephen Sanders +8
Recent theoretical studies have highlighted the role of spatially varying cavity electromagnetic fields in exploring novel cavity quantum electrodynamics (cQED) phenomena, such as…
Detection of strong light-matter interaction in a single nano-cavity with a thermal transducer
Mario Malerba, Simone Sotgiu, Andrea Schirato +11
Recently, the concept of strong light-matter coupling has been demonstrated in semiconductor structures, and it is poised to revolutionize the design and implementation of componen…
All-optical Reconfiguration of Ultrafast Dichroism in Gold Metasurfaces
Andrea Schirato, Andrea Toma, Remo Proietti Zaccaria +4
Optical metasurfaces have come into the spotlight as a promising platform for light manipulation at the nanoscale, including ultrafast all-optical control via excitation with femto…
Challenges in Plasmonic Catalysis
Emiliano Cortés, Lucas V. Besteiro, Alessandro Alabastri +4
The use of nanoplasmonics to control light and heat close to the thermodynamic limit enables exciting opportunities in the field of plasmonic catalysis. The decay of plasmonic exci…
Three-dimensional Printing of Complex Graphite Structures
Seyed Mohammad Sajadi, Shayan Enayat, Lívia Vásárhelyi +14
Graphite, with many industrial applications, is one of the widely sought-after allotropes of carbon. The sp2 hybridized and thermodynamically stable form of carbon forms a layered…
Transient optical symmetry breaking for ultrafast broadband dichroism in plasmonic metasurfaces
Andrea Schirato, Margherita Maiuri, Andrea Toma +7
Ultrafast nanophotonics is an emerging research field aimed at the development of nanodevices capable of light modulation with unprecedented speed. A promising approach exploits th…
Photoinduced Temperature Gradients in Sub-wavelength Plasmonic Structures: The Thermoplasmonics of Nanocones
Joao Cunha, Tian-Long Guo, Alemayehu Nana Koya +5
Plasmonic structures are renowned for their capability to efficiently convert light into heat at the nanoscale. However, despite the possibility to generate deep sub-wavelength ele…
lambda DNA through a plasmonic nanopore What can be detected by means of Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering?
Aliaksandr Hubarevich, Jian-An Huang, Giorgia Giovannini +6
Engineered electromagnetic fields in plasmonic nanopores enable enhanced optical detection and their use in single molecule sequencing. Here, a plasmonic nanopore prepared in a thi…
Galvanic Replacement Reaction to prepare nanoporous Aluminum for UV plasmonics
Denis Garoli, Giorgia Giovannini, Sandro Cattarin +9
Plasmonics applications have been extending into the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Unfortunately the commonly used noble metals have intrinsic optical propert…
Nanoporous Aluminum-Magnesium Alloy for UV enhanced spectroscopy
Paolo Ponzellini, Giorgia Giovannini, Sandro Cattarin +11
We report the first preparation of nanoporous Al-Mg alloy films by selective dissolution of Mg from a Mg-rich AlxMg1-x alloy. We show how to tune the stoichiometry, the porosity an…
Surface Thermal Gradients Activated by Enhanced Molecular Absorption in Mid-infrared Vertical Antenna Arrays
Andrea Mancini, Valeria Giliberti, Alessandro Alabastri +4
We investigate local heat generation by molecules at the apex of polymer-embedded vertical antennas excited at resonant mid-infrared wavelengths, exploiting the surface enhanced in…
Thermoplasmonic Effect of Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption in Vertical Nanoantenna Arrays
Andrea Mancini, Valeria Giliberti, Alessandro Alabastri +4
The temperature increase and temperature gradients induced by mid-infrared laser illumination of vertical gold nanoantenna arrays embedded into polymer layers was measured directly…
How To Identify Plasmons from the Optical Response of Nanostructures
Runmin Zhang, Luca Bursi, Joel D. Cox +11
A promising trend in plasmonics involves shrinking the size of plasmon-supporting structures down to a few nanometers, thus enabling control over light-matter interaction at extrem…
Plasmonic heating in Au nanowires at low Temperatures: The role of thermal boundary resistance
Pavlo Zolotavin, Alessandro Alabastri, Peter Nordlander +1
Inelastic electron tunneling and surface-enhanced optical spectroscopies at the molecular scale require cryogenic local temperatures even under illumination - conditions that are c…